FORGERY ALLEGED.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1921, Page 5

FORGERY ALLEGED.

A RACECOURSE INCIDENT. ‘"TOTE” TICKETS QUESTIONED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, April 6. Robert Fox was charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with having forged ’three totalisator tickets and having uttered the same to William Herbert-Evatt on thq final day of the last races at Trentbam. Fox was arrested in Christchurch. The pay-out clerk at the totalisator said that the three tickets produced were on horse No. 7 on v the last race, No. 8 At about 5.20 the three tickets were presented for payment. They did not appear to be quite regular, and the witness referred them to the officer in charge. They were shown to the mechanic, who said they did not come out of the machine in that condition. The tickets had been bought presumably on another horse in the eighth race and had been altered, the number in the middle of the ticket being rubbed out and No. 7 inserted. The word “seven” had also been put in, in place of the other erased. Witness did not pay out. Evidence was given/hat accused, who was subsequently arrested on the Riccarton racecourse, was identified by the man who stood behind him when accused presented the allegedly forged tickets. Accused pleaded not guilty and wa» committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail Being allowed in two sureties of £lOO and £5O.